Word: historicizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The anger accumulated over decades has blossomed into a rainbow of national colors, a sign that whatever their unity of aims, each state still proudly clings to its own national traditions. In Estonia the once banned blue-black- and-white flag from the period of independence between the two World...
In the Congress of People's Deputies, reformers take a historic stand against party rule, while scholars call into question the founder of the Soviet state. -- Denis Thatcher, the British Prime Minister's husband, keeps a stiff upper lip in public. -- Poland narrowly avoids political chaos again as the Communist...
After a marathon journey of twelve years and more than 4 billion miles, the remarkable Voyager 2 space probe is finally approaching its last port of call. Having made historic flybys of Jupiter in 1979, Saturn in 1981 and Uranus in 1986, it is poised for an Aug. 24 rendezvous...
Lithuania's Catholics have also regained church buildings, established their own bimonthly magazine and, as of three weeks ago, are producing a TV show that is seen each Sunday. The man responsible for the new religious freedoms, Mikhail Gorbachev, will visit Italy in November and is almost certain to pay...
This unprecedented loosening of central authority is a bold but risky attempt by Gorbachev to deal with the surging tide of nationalism; he has had trouble riding that particular wave in recent months. While Baltic representatives acknowledged that their economies could not yet survive under full independence, some of the...